Healing Basketball

  Chapter 699 Chapter 699. Ferocious start

The Pistons beat the Wizards 111-86, the Pacers beat the Cavaliers 93-89, the Spurs beat the Nuggets 92-88, and the Suns beat the Grizzlies 104-99 in the first game of the playoffs Come to an end.

   At this time last year, who would have thought that in the playoffs next season, the Pistons would be the one with the best offense on the first game day?

   Raja Bell was reimbursed for the season. The Suns did not say that their strength was greatly affected, but they almost overturned in the first game. In the first half, they trailed the Grizzlies 38 to 51 by 13 points.

But Nash once again showed his super leadership ability. After adapting to the changes of his teammates in the second half, he adjusted the team's offense. The original style of play, the position of shooting guard needs a wing spot catcher, and the adjustment requires a runner who can run and rush. The shooting guard who stopped the jump shot smashed the Grizzlies with 66 points in the second half.

  Before going to bed at night, Liu Xiu read the report of today's 4 games, and he didn't plan to watch these things any more. He planned to wait until the end of the first round to pay attention to the news of other teams.

   On the second day, April 23, the first game day of the Trail Blazers playoffs arrived.

  In the morning, the alliance came.

   Send Liu Xiu the plates of assist king and steal king. Anne Hathaway and Qing Er followed him to the Rose Garden Arena early in the morning, just waiting for the press conference to take the plates away.

   In addition to his two statistical king awards, the Blazers also won an individual award.

   After a lapse of one year, Maurice Cheeks won the best coach award again.

Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell got the second vote, Pistons head coach Flip Saunders third, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich fourth, and Pacers head coach fifth Rick Carlisle.

  Morris Cheeks' award this time is full of gold.

  Liu Xiu and Maurice Cheeks are happy, but one person in the Trail Blazers is depressed—the most non-existent general manager John Nash.

   The vote for the best manager award is voted by the general managers + CEOs of 30 teams, and cannot be voted for the general manager of their own team.

  John Nash got 19 votes and lost to Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor who got 25 votes.

  John Nash complained that people across the league sympathized with Baylor and did not want him to lose his job.

  His statement is not unreasonable. It was announced in the morning that Baylor had won the Best Manager Award. In the afternoon, the Clippers announced that they had renewed their contract with the 72-year-old Baylor for three years.

  When he became the general manager of the Clippers in 1986 and left, Baylor had worked in the Clippers for 20 years.

Last season, the team's record collapsed, the contract expired, and Baylor was still so old. Baylor was about to lose his job. Suddenly, as if he picked up the team building manual, he made the Clippers 50 wins in a mess. Level team, won the best manager, renewed for 3 years.

   If there is no problem, John Nash doesn't believe it!

  …

   At 7:40 p.m., the Rose Garden Arena, the Lakers and Trail Blazers have entered the stadium one after another, and the flag-raising ceremony of the regular season championship flag is going on at the scene.

  Liu Xiu looked up at the big word 'seventy' on the flag, wondering if she should be happy or not.

   Not only did they have the word "seventy" representing their 70 victories, but the names of his warden and the big dog embroidered on the flag were also bilingual in Chinese and English.

  The two of them are bilingual, and the others are not—before the flag was raised, Gou Dahu deliberately found Liu Xiu and said this sentence.

  Liu Xiu is in a very complicated mood. I can only say that hieroglyphics may be really foreign in the eyes of Americans.

  No matter what Liu Xiu thought, the fans at the scene were beyond excited.

  The second regular season championship in team history!

  The last time was 15 years ago. In the 1990-91 season, they beat the Bulls with 63 wins and 61 wins to win the regular season championship.

   Now they are finally standing in this position again! And it's still 70 wins!

  The atmosphere at Rose Bay Devil's home court also made Liu Xiu and his teammates very excited and full of fighting spirit.

   At this moment, Liu Xiu felt a sharp gaze, as if trying to cut him in half.

   Without looking back, he knew that the Great God was staring at him.

"Kobe Bryant, 27 years old, 198 cm, 96 kg, SG/SF, ability evaluation 100, offense 100, defense 98... Played 80 games, averaged 41 minutes per game, averaged 38.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.8 0.5 blocks in steals... 46.9 percent shooting from the field, 36.1 percent from the 3-point range, 85 percent from the free throw line..."

  Looking at this data, Liu Xiu was a little excited!

   Without Kobe, the opponent in front of him would really be difficult to arouse his interest.

He looked at the lineup of the Lakers. The only good teammates are Odom, Butler, Wang Zhizhi, and Deron. Except for their four starting teammates, only Luke Wall, who averaged 5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Dayton, barely considered a good teammate.

  Others are dragged forward by this core group of 6 people.

   Soon, the time came to 7:58, and the game was about to start. Liu Xiu chose to copy objects——Ray Allen's fast shot, Kobe's "Physical Rush" and "Serial Killer".

  After the reminder triggered by 'Sharp Shooter', the mission reminder came!

   "The host has met Kobe Bryant in the playoffs, and the advanced mission of the legendary matchup: the matchup of the legendary scoring champion is triggered."

   "Legendary scorer duel: Legend Road series of missions.

  Goal 1: The host must score higher than Kobe Bryant in this game.

  Goal 2: The host must score higher than Kobe Bryant in a single quarter in this game.

  Goal 3: The host must score higher in singles than Kobe Bryant in this game.

  Reward: 5,000 healing points will be rewarded for each goal completed. Complete any goal to start the next stage of the task. "

   After watching the 3 goals, Liu Xiu cursed.

   Is this not wanting to give him Kobe's natural tendencies?

  He didn't know that the "Legendary Scorer Showdown" is one of the hottest topics in the basketball world right now. It's about the showdown between last year's scoring leader, Warden, and this year's scoring leader, Kobe Bryant.

  But whether you know it or not, these 3 goals are a little too much.

   But seeing the final reward, he breathed a sigh of relief, it was only part of the task about Kobe's talent tendency, and only one goal needed to be completed.

   It's just that no matter which goal it is, the difficulty is big enough!

  …

The starting lineups of the two teams came to the field. The Trail Blazers sent Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Randolph, and Kwame Brown; the Lakers sent Deron, Kobe, Butler, The starting lineup of Odom and Wang Zhizhi.

   At 8:00 p.m., Kwame Brown beat Wang Zhizhi to win the jump ball. The Trail Blazers took the lead and the game began!

   Unlike the usual slow start of offense and general performance in the first quarter, the Trail Blazers played very bravely in the opening stage tonight!

   Driven by Ray Allen's two three-pointers at the start, the Trail Blazers started off with a 12-4 climax against the Lakers!

  (end of this chapter)